peripatus(n = noun.animal) onychophoran, velvet worm - any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms;
is a kind of arthropod
is a member of class onychophora, onychophora
has particulars: plicatoperipatus jamaicensis
A genus of lowly organized arthropods, found in South Africa, Australia, and tropical America. It constitutes the order Malacopoda. [1913 Webster]